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SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REGARDING US INVOLVEMENT IN
DEVELOPING CONTRAS IN CHIAPAS AND US MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN
MEXICO AND CHIAPAS

EQUIPMENT
* 25 military vehicles from the US crossed the border at
Ciudad Juarez the previous day. (December 6, 1995 Diario de
Juarez)

*Secretary of Defense William Perry maintained that his
country will collaborate in the improvement of our defense
capacity in air and maritime space in the modernization of
military hardware and in the improvement of personnel for
combating the drug trade. He insisted that the bilateral
relationship, aided before on two bases--the political and
commercial-now will also be founded on one more, that is, on
the question of security. After pointing out commercial and
economic collaboration--such as the NAFTA and the recent aid
Mexico received due to the economic crisis of last December-
-the chief of the US Armed Force maintained, ''when it comes
to stability and security, our destinies are also
indissoluble linked. " Members of the United States
retinue asserted that Mexico bought a radar worth seven
million dollars as well as 12 Huey-H1 helicopters to fight
drug trafficking. (La Jornada, October 24, 1995)

* The US wants to rent 12 Huey helicopters to Mexico (New
York Times, September 24, 1995)

* The government of President Ernesto Zedillo has requested
the purchase of airplanes, armament, radars and
communication systems worth a total of $27 million to
reinforce the capacities of the Armed Forces and Federal
Attorney General. see attached list (El Financiero, August
29, 1995)

*In 1991, the United States Army donated a total of 609
vehicles and diverse war material to the [Mexican] Armed
Forces La Jornada, July 1995

*Mexico's U.S. supplied military helicopter fleet could be
nearly doubled, to almost 200, by Pentagon transfers,
including several dozen state of the art Blackhawk choppers.
(New York Times May 23, 1995)

* From 1988 to 1992 the US exported over $214 million in
arms to the PRI government, an amount 16 times higher than
France, the second-place supplier (El Proceso, December 12,
1994)

*In 1994 Clinton authorized a new arms export package for
Mexico, including over $64 million of sophisticated
electronic equipment and satellite guided UH-60 Blackhawk
helicopters

*U.S. Huey and Bell 212 helicopters along with C-130
Hercules troop transport planes were used against the
Zapatistas in 1994

IMMIGRATION CONTROL
*In Nogales, Arizona, the INS practiced responding to an
"immigrant invasion from Mexico". They practiced erecting
cyclone-fence corrals, herding immigrants through them for
emergency processing and loading them onto bus convoys for
travel to mass detention centers. It is the third set of
exercises this year---previously conducted in Orlando and
McAllen, Texas. Immigrants eventually could be held in
prisons, military bases or tent cities. (New York Times,
December 8, 1995)

* Donald E. Schulz, an associate professor of National
Security with the US Army's War College stated that "a
hostile government could put the US investments in danger
[in Mexico], jeopardize access to oil, produce a flood of
political refugees and economic migrants to the north. And
under such circumstances, the United States would feel
obligated to militarize its southern border." (December 6,
1995 La Jornada)

* A US contingency plan "to contain a possible wave of
immigrants... provides military logistical support to the
Border Patrol, training exercises [by the INS and the Border
Patrol], detention of immigrants in inactive military bases
and construction of concrete barricades on the border with
Mexico. A pilot project to detain 380 immigrants for up to
18 months is planned for Miramar Naval Station near San
Diego. Training exercises covering actions in the
countryside, the rapid processing of undocumented persons
and their transportation to detention centers were to be
carried out in Nogales, Arizona and McAllen, Texas during
November. (November 12, 1995 El Financiero)

TRAINING OF OFFICERS
*A senior US defense official briefly mentions that there
are "routine exchanges of officers attending [US] military
schools and [Mexican] military schools", and that "[US]
senior officers visit Mexico as part of the US Capstone
program. The Mexican military routinely visit the US'
National Defense University". (October 20, 1995 press
briefing)

*There are US advisors "preparing" counterinsurgency
commandos or paramilitary groups among indigenous
organizations not affiliated with the Zapatistas in order
that they, at the appropriate time, struggle against the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation...The [Mexican]
government has replaced the "armed wing" with the federal
Attorney General and state public security bodies, led by
"old masters" such as General Arturo Acosta Chaparro [who
directed the army's massacre of students in xxx on October
2, 1969, and who was trained in the US' School of the
Americas]... (La Jornada, November 7, 1995, article
regarding Radio Universidad's interview with Sub. Marcos)

INTELLIGENCE EFFORTS
* Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Propp is named as the
head of a Secret or Covert Operations team operating since
June 1994 in Chiapas. He was detected in San Cristobal de
las Casas since that time and was in Guadalupe Tepeyac with
the Mexican military unit that took that village on February
10, 1995. He also was seen in San Quintin..It is confirmed
that the United States government interfered in
communications amongst the EZLN delegation to the dialogues
in San Andres and passing the information to the
government's delegation. Another report is that the United
States Army is acting as an intermediary in bringing
Argentinean mercenaries to Chiapas; people have reported
them with the paramilitary groups, the "white guards". (La
Brecha de Uruguay, interview with Sub. Marcos, Oct. 28,
1995)

*Major John Kevin Kord, and Lieutenant Colonel Alan Hasson
Sanchez are US military men identified as being in Chiapas
during the Mexican military offensive in February. (El
Norte Chiapas, February 12, 1995)

*[FBI] staff in Mexico participate in training Mexicans, in
the development of common strategies against organized
crimes and in the prosecution of crimes involving American
citizens, stated Paul Bresson, spokesperson for the FBI.
The head of the FBI team in Mexico is Stanley Pimental, and
he has a handful of special agents working under him
including James Wells, Gilberto Contreras and Ornelo Flores.
Mexico is one of 21 countries in which the FBI operates and
has one of the largest staff--approximately 10 people. (El
Financiero, November 6, 1994)